21 Апреля 1944 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Friday, April 21, 1944 (April 8, 1944 by the Julian calendar)
Bright Week

Entire week. "Life- giving Spring" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Friday of the Bright Week). Commemoration of the renewal (sanctification) of the Holy Theotokos temple near the Life-giving Spring in Constantinople (5th c.) (movable holiday on the Friday of the Bright Week). "Pochaev" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Friday of the Bright Week). Holy Apostles of the Seventy: Herodion, Agabus, Asyncritus, Rufus, Phlegon, Hermes, and those with them (1st c.). St. Niphont, bishop of Novgorod (1156). St. Rufus the Obedient of the Kiev Caves (14th c.). Martyr Pausilippus of Heraclea in Thrace (117-138). St. Celestine, pope of Rome (432). New Martyr John Naukliros ("the Navigator") in Thessaly (1699). Monk-martyrs Josias and Joseph of Mt. Kharasam, Persia (341). New Martyr John (Koulika) (1564).